Clothes-holder.



S. SCHREINER CLOTHES HQLDER.

APPLICATION mm OCT. i3. 19x5.

3. ,%5,%?%., Patent-ed Nov. 21, 1916.

avwmdoz SIG-URD SCHREINER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CLOTHES-HOLDER.

Application filed October 13, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIGURD SoHRmNnR, a subject of the King of Norway, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook-and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a clothes holder with the ends of the arms which are movably connected with the bracket when the clothes supporting arms are in an extended position and thereby distribute the strain imposed upon the clothes supporting arms equally between the bracket and plate.

A further object of the invention is to provide the clothes supporting arms with plates which assist in securing the ends of the arms to the bracket and also materially strengthens the ends of the arms at their point of connection with the bracket.

A further object of the invention is to provide a bracket having an arm supporting section which is provided with radially ex tending slots, said slots being adapted to guide the ends of the bars containing the plates beneath a plate on the bracket when said bars are moved in one direction.

A still further object of the invention is to provide an arm supporting section of the bracket with a downturned flange in which the radially extending slots in the arm supporting section terminate, topermit the bars through their connection with said section to be moved to a folded or depending posi tion around the peripheral edge of said section, with the plates which normally serve as wear plates on the ends of said bars interposed between the said flange and bars.

With these and other objects in view the.

invention resides in the novel combination and arrangement of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out inlthe claim.

The preferred embodiment of the invention has been illustrated in the accompanying drawing but no restriction is necessarily made to the precise details of construction therein shown, as changes, alterations and Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1916.

Serial No. 55,728.

modifications within the scope of the claim.-

may be resorted to when desired.

In the draw1ng:F gure 1 is a front elevation of the improved clothes holder constructed in. accordance with the invention, the clothes holder supporting bars connected therewith being shown in a folded position.

Fig. 2 is. a top plan View of the clothes holder as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2 showing a clothes, supporting bar with one end thereof positioned beneath a plate on the bracket. Fig. l is a detail perspective view of one end of one of the clothes supporting bars. showing a portion thereof broken away to disclose the means for connecting the bar with the bracket.

Like, characters of reference denote cor-- The improved clothes holder as c0nstructed in accordance with the invention comprises a bracket 1 and clothes supporting bars 2 which are inovably connected with the bracket to permit the same to depend therefrom when in a folded position.

The bracket 1 is formed by a casting providing a triangular shaped attaching section 3, an arm supporting section 4 extending at right angles to the attaching section at the bottom thereof, and a plate extending laterally from the attaching section and overlying in spaced relation a portion of the, supporting section l. Extending vertically between the arm supporting section and the plate, and connected with the attaching section of the bracket, is a partition 6 which materially strengthens the construction of the bracket and also serves a purpose which will be hereinafter described.

The supporting section of the bracket is semi-circular in shape and is provided along its peripheral edge with a 'downturned flange 7, into which the outer ends of radially extending slots 8 in said section extend. The inner ends of the radially extending slots 8 in the arm supporting section 4 extend a short distance beneath the plate 5.

The attaching section 3 has the'slanting side walls thereof provided with a laterally extending flange for strengthening the attaching section, said flanges merging at the termination of the slanting sides of the attaching section in projections 9, while the body of the attaching section beneath the flange on the arm supporting section is recessed to provide a projection 10 disposed intermediate the projections 9 and having a slot 11 therein which cooperates with a key hole slot 12, in the upper end of the attaching section for securing a bracket to a wall or similar support by means of fastening elements such as screws or the like.

The underside of the arm supporting section & gradually increases in thickness along its entire under surface in a line extending from the flange on the arm supporting section to the point of connection of the arm supporting section with the attaching section of the bracket.

Mounted for longitudinal sliding movement in line with the radially extending slots 8 in the arm supporting section are the ends of the bars 2, said bars being connected with the arms supporting section by fastening elements extending through the slots 8 and the bars 2 which will now be described. 1

All of the bars 2 are provided with an opening 13 adapted to receive a rivet 141, which has a reduced portion 15 extending through the opening in the end of the bar and above the same for a slight distance while the remaining portion of the rivet which passes between the bevel side walls 16 of the radially extending slots 8 terminate in a flared head 17 which is frictionally engaged with the under side of the arm supporting section 4 and the side walls 16 of the slots 8 when the ends of the arms 2 are positioned beneath the plate 5. The end of the rivet 14: which extends above the bar 41 is flanged and is caused to contact with the under surface of the bracket 5 when the bars 2 are in the above mentioned position.

In order that the bars may be easily moved over the arm supporting section when.the flanged heads of the rivets 14 are beneath the plate 5 wear plates 18 are secured to the under side of the arms 2 by means of the rivets 1st and fastening elements 19, said plates also serving to materially strengthen the ends of the bars containing the rivets 14 when strain is imposed upon the bars, when the ends thereof have been withdrawn from beneath the plate 5.

It will be apparent with reference to Fig. 3 of the drawing that by moving the ends of the bars which are movably secured to the arm supporting section 4 longitudinally of said section, in one direction, the rivets 14 will permit the bars to depend circumferentially around the peripheral edge of the arm supporting section of the bracket, and when said bars are moved in the opposite direction the radially extending slots.

8 will guide the ends of the bars beneath the plate 5, while the slanting portion of the under surface of the section 4 insures the end of the rivets which project above the bars 2 contacting with the under side of the plate 5.

lVhen it is desired to use. the clothes holder the bracket 1 is attached to a suitable support and the ends of the arms connected with the arm supporting section are slid longitudinally of the slots in said section to position the ends beneath the plate 5, with the ends of the rivets which project above the bars 2 contacting with the under surface of the plate 5 and the wear plates 18 interposed between the arm supporting section and the arms. With the arms 2 in the above mentioned position any weight imposed upon said bars will cause the strain of the weight to be equally distributed between the arm supporting section and the plate 5 which in turn cooperates with the projections 9 and 10 to prevent the bracket from becoming accidentally disengaged with the means for fastening the same to a support.

It will, of course, be understood that as many bars may be used as there are slots in the arm supporting section and that when said bars are folded the bracket 1 may be removed from the support if desired.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing it is at once apparent that a clothes holder has been provided which is simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture and highly eificient in use.

' Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is In a device of the class described, the combination with a bracket having slots therein, of a plate on said bracket over-lying said slots for a portion of their length, arms having wear plates thereon, attaching members passing through said arms and plates and having ends received in said slots, and other ends on said attaching elements extending above the arms and adapted for contact with said plate.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SIGURD SCHREINER.

Witnesses:

JACOB NILSEN, HERMAN J. WISEMANN.

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